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FRANCE

Year

'■"e^lCr"" «'"">i=^«'»

Tonnage Steamers

Tonnage

Value of products

1907 19(H 19l>9

152,144 28.425 156,734 ' 29,712 159,899 29,598

195,307 241 199,732 268 196,707 269

32,578 33,223 35,807

Francs 123,951,607 129,646,083 134,865,728

Statistics of the French cod fisheries at Iceland, in the North Sea, and at Newfonndland, are given as follows for 1909 : —

Produce

Value of

Cod

Tons

2,882 11,775

348 291

6,755 52,220

Oil

Barrels 4,006 27 1,937

produce

No.

Iceland. . .123 North Sea. . ; 49 Newfoundland. ; 224

Tons

13.606

368

42,265

1,000 Franrs 7,230 206 18,007

Totals. . 396

56,239

9,985 64,286

5,970

25,443

The chief produce of the inshore fisheries, in weight aiul value, in 1909 \vas as follows : —

—

Tons

31,888

9,530

31,539

3,275

1,000 Francs

Tunny fish.' '. Lobsters. '.

Oysters i. ! Mussels

Tons

1,000 Francs

Herring Mackerel hiardiues

Anchovies and Sprats

7,451 6,379

18,550

1,172

6,458 1.231

227,485,952 5,357

(1,000 gals.)

4,208

3,093

607

699

1 Pieces.

Commerce.

In French statistics General Trade includes all goods entering or leaving France, while Special Trade includes only imports for home use and exports of French origin.

The Commission Permanente des Valeurs annually determines the values (called actual values) which represent the average prices of the different articles in the Customs list 'luring the year. Tlie values fixed at the end of one year and applied to that year retro- spectively, arc applied also during the following year, at the end of which the provisional results thus obtained are revised according to new values definitely fixed by the Com- mission. Thus each year there are published first the provisional and later the definitive commercial statistics. The customs entries show the country of origin of imports and that of ultimate destination of exports. For five years (provisional for 1912) the values were : —

ommerce

Special Cc

Years

General C

mimerce i

Imports

Exports

l,(i(lOZ.

Imports

i.oooj.

Exports

1,(100/.

1 ,000?.

1908

287,216

264,812

225,620

202,028

1909

314,260

299.292

249,844

228,724

1910

364,000

324,000

286,933

249,352

1911

392,396

320,488

322,633

243,094

1912

—

—

318,034

265,454

1 Excluding postal packets.